Atonement

An Academy Award-winning film version of the story appeared in 2007.

…and the two reunited for Atonement (2007), which was based on Ian McEwan’s novel of the same name. Knightley played the wealthy Cecilia Tallis, whose secret affair with the housekeeper’s son (James McAvoy) in pre-World War II England sets off a series of tragic events. For her performance, she earned…

…appeared in the film dramas Atonement (2007), an adaptation of the novel by Ian McEwan, and Evening (2007), in which she starred as a woman who remembers a long-lost love as she lies on her deathbed.

…that destroys several lives, in Atonement (2007), based on the novel by Ian McEwan. For her performance, Ronan was nominated for an Academy Award.